Simply Put: It’s a fish eats fish world

Get ready for post-globalisation era

India's trade negotiators have to fight hard to protect national interests

Farmers want Modi to avoid unfair trade deals with Trump

Expresses concern over possible access of US agri products to Indian markets

A possible Indo-US trade agreement would be an imperialist attack on India’s farmers

Such a deal will have repercussions on our agricultural production and economy

Global civil society organisations support India’s stand at WTO

Support comes just before WTO’s Nairobi meet in December 

WTO finally sides with the US; terms India’s solar conditions ‘inconsistent’

India had appealed against an earlier decision of WTO which favoured the US

WTO members agree to discuss proposal to waive patents on COVID-19 technologies 

The waiver would increase access to technologies crucial to fighting the pandemic

WTO decision on access to COVID-19 drugs without strings delayed

Proposal will be formally discussed in March next year, sources say

China opposes anti-dumping probe on solar panels by the US

Warns US of retaliatory measures

Indian company gets licence to manufacture and sell patented cancer drug

This is the first-ever compulsory licence given to a generic drug company

US challenges India's solar energy policy before WTO

'It is an attempt to browbeat India and further the interest of US solar companies'

Civil society calls on govts to reject WTO e-commerce talks

Some WTO members announce new talks, which were rejected by the membership at the last Ministerial, at the WEF

Non-profits from 22 countries including India prevented from attending WTO meet

The civil society representatives allege that the move to restrict access for non-profits aims to de-democratise the organisation

Plant protection authority sets right its potato blunder

A public campaign forced it to revoke registration of PepsiCo’s potato variety, but the agency needs to reset its priorities

Not all is well with WTO: growing protectionism, trade wars threaten its existence

Countries are now getting into bilateral or regional trade deals as opposed to global agreements

Rich nations should reduce trade-distorting farm subsidies by 2019: India, China tell WTO

The countries say that talks on further discipline on domestic support can only happen after harmful subsidies are reduced

Geneva WTO meet 2022: ‘Disaster’, not ‘win’ for India’s small fishers

With no protection from Special and Differential Treatment (S&DT), Indian fishers are vulnerable to having their subsidies stripped

Don't hold digital trade talks in WTO: Civil society groups call on governments

Developing countries must come up with their own agenda for digital industrialisation instead of advancing ones by tech giants, say …

Civil society 'deeply disappointed' with WTO ministerial declaration on agriculture

On Public Food stockholding, the current proposal is far worse than the Peace Clause, which itself suffered from several problems

How trade policies can support global efforts to curb climate change

It is important that policies around trade and investment support efforts to adapt to global warming

Status quo

Political cooperation at multilateral organisations for the preservation of international peace and security will continue to be biased heavily …

Seed revolution that lasted five days

Agriculture ministry's bravado in bringing seeds under compulsory licensing was short-lived

China's loss to US in WTO is not good news for India

India calculates subsidy the same way as China, which lost the case for giving too much subsidy to its wheat, rice farmers

India must reap benefits of booming floriculture industry

With the size of individual farm lands diminishing by the day, horticulture holds immense potential to augment income of many small farmers

WTO’s MC12 ends, India’s demand on public stockholdings for food grains pushed to 2023

India had pressed for a concrete solution to the issue; but some other countries hardened their positions, resulting in a lack of consensus, …